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Longer-term readers may recall that last summer I frequently alluded to an absolutely insane experience which I simply called The Tale. Surely after all the hints I’ve dropped, you’ve put the pieces together, but it all kicked off due to this event from last June:
Here are the average ages of the continents of the world. As you can see, there are a gazillion kids being born in Africa, whereas Europe decided to stop reproducing decades ago.
I can tell you from personal observation that, for skiing, this winter has absolutely sucked. We had two giant dumps, but overall, it’s been warm and dry, which makes for a crummy ski season. This is true all over the west.
This shows the relative change from state to state from last year. Unsurprisingly, folks were inclined to leave high-tax states like New York and my own California and head toward places like Texas. These aren’t monstrous changes: for instance, in California’s case, imagine a stadium of 10,000 people and 25 people leave to visit the bathroom (permanently). It isn’t that big a shift.
